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[VS] Outfit Website now at www.rockplanetshotgun.com

Functionality should soon include the ability to submit events (for those hosting training sessions and similar one-off events). (This kind of already exists, but I need to toy about with some settings).

The ugly events page will be re-formatted soon, as will some other bits.

We need:
A background (tile) that will replace the current grey. OR some fancy background (which may or may not be nicked from whatever appears for the YouTube site).

In general, feedback would be good. The about / recruitment pages will be replaced by whatever comes out of the upcoming "outfit guide" to be started soon.

Would be nice for the about page to feature a little outfit history. Idk whats planned for the outfit guide, but it sounds good.

As far as BG and logo are concerned, still waiting to hear back from Rizlar on that one. We shouldnt be too far off though...

I also had some more thoughts to include "compilation" videos (like jag recently made) be uploaded onto the main channel to promote more subscription/views, but ive not heard any opinions on that yet, so it would be good to discuss.

Ive literally only just seen that you apparently had a meeting weds. I didnt see the update for that, so my bad for missing it, so I may be out of date on some of this stuff.

Because, basically, if I can get that php nicked from the PSU forums working, I can do what I want to do without much help. I can just replace the table echoes and variables with what I need to pull.

But something I can't work out has gone screwy with the smallest of changes there...

I do a bit of coding in various languages (enough to hack around in PHP) and I think I fixed your problem.

I checked the data returned by the census website and where the script checks the online status of players (line 24 of the script) its looking for a status of "1" as online, where in the census data for us it is inexplicably "10" for online. The script fails if no players are online, hence the errors.

PS. To illustrate the problem, here's a member from the census data for RPS:

{"rank":"Giraffe calf","member_since":"1.365433556E9","character_id ":"5428054466439967217","online_status":"10"},
and here's a member for the PYCS outfit:

{"rank":"Soldier","member_since":"1.359100059E9"," character_id":"5428021759054054193","online_status ":"1"},
Why ours is different I do not know, looking at other outfits on our server its the same for them too. Maybe its a Miller thing.

Might be a bit late to the party, but I was spending some time browsing the websites of other Miller outfits hunting for logos (this resource is pretty great, we are even on there!) and it got me thinking about our work in progress website.

I would quite like to see our website's visual design streamlined even more, condensing the whole thing into a thinner column, possibly using a slightly smaller text size and streamlining the information that is visible at any one time. I think the space-fascist Goon Brigade's website is a good example of what I mean. http://blog.goonbrigade.com/ It would basically involve using a single column, sidebar and menu bar, minimising empty space and reducing some of the text sizes. Any important extra information that doesn't fit into the main column or the two bars, such as upcoming outfit events, could perhaps go in the header image.

My only real criticism of the Goon site is that their header images vary in size. Unless there is a good reason not to, menu bars and header dimensions should be consistent across pages.

I realise that the general layout may not be finalised at all yet, but I wanted to get some feedback in anyway.

ps. Did you know that about 40% of TR outfits have a skull in their logo?

Might be a bit late to the party, but I was spending some time browsing the websites of other Miller outfits hunting for logos (this resource is pretty great, we are even on there!) and it got me thinking about our work in progress website.

I would quite like to see our website's visual design streamlined even more, condensing the whole thing into a thinner column, possibly using a slightly smaller text size and streamlining the information that is visible at any one time. I think the space-fascist Goon Brigade's website is a good example of what I mean. http://blog.goonbrigade.com/ It would basically involve using a single column, sidebar and menu bar, minimising empty space and reducing some of the text sizes. Any important extra information that doesn't fit into the main column or the two bars, such as upcoming outfit events, could perhaps go in the header image.

My only real criticism of the Goon site is that their header images vary in size. Unless there is a good reason not to, menu bars and header dimensions should be consistent across pages.

I realise that the general layout may not be finalised at all yet, but I wanted to get some feedback in anyway.

ps. Did you know that about 40% of TR outfits have a skull in their logo?

I've spent quite a bit of time editing that outfit wikia. First change I made was make all the servers collapsible sections

The WP theme I use scales very well. Put it on a mobile and it doesn't look bad at all.

I can reduce its width, but tiny widths on widescreens (the predominant form) are a bugbear of mine. It's an astoundingly bad use of space. Especially if you have sidebars an anything else that adds width to the site. The current width of the text section is about the same as the width of the goon site you linked to. Our sidebars are larger.

The Goons Brigade have updated their site a huge amount. It was one of the first sites we looked ta for comparison.

I've spent quite a bit of time editing that outfit wikia. First change I made was make all the servers collapsible sections

I was particularly impressed by the collapsible sections! :P

Originally Posted by Cooper

I can reduce its width, but tiny widths on widescreens (the predominant form) are a bugbear of mine. It's an astoundingly bad use of space. Especially if you have sidebars an anything else that adds width to the site. The current width of the text section is about the same as the width of the goon site you linked to. Our sidebars are larger.

Yeah, I was referring to reducing the width of the sidebar really, the main column seems fine. It just seemed that the menu bar/side bar could look slicker if they were smaller/simpler.

Looking at the front page again, I think maybe just moving 'upcoming events' into the header (rotating through events? perhaps in white?) so that the main column isn't sub-divided vertically, and getting rid of some empty space (particularly in the side bar) would do it for me.

It is looking great anyway, the use of pages/the information that's up there/use of type etc seems to work really well.

I intend to do a pass on the CSS and PHP files behind the theme once we have a logo. I'll put in a header, I'll sort out a better background (probably black text on white for the main text, not the fucking awful grey on grey it is now) and tighten up the formatting. It's something I would rather sit down and do in one go rather than bit by bit.

Though if yourself or anyone else wants to have a stab at this kind of thing, I'm not averse to adding a couple more admin, if that's ok with CMaster.

Add as many wordpress admins as you like - it's the outfit website, whoever wants to get involved in keeping it up to date should do (and the more the better really, as it's more likley to be kept up to date that way). Try to not spread the FTP details around too much though.